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Hal Prince and his Evita experience

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Hal Prince and his Evita experience

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wiggum2
#1Hal Prince and his Evita experience
Posted: 8/20/19 at 3:26pm

WIth the death of Hal and having seen a production of Evita over the weekend, Did Hal ever give his thoughts about the different Evitas? For example did he like Elaine over Patti? Did he like London over Broadway... things like that... 

any help would be appreciated

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Kad
#2Hal Prince and his Evita experience
Posted: 8/20/19 at 3:29pm

In his book, he doesn't talk about Patti at all beyond a passing mention that she played Eva. 


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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#3Hal Prince and his Evita experience
Posted: 8/20/19 at 7:34pm

He definitely didn't like the revival that he had nothing to do with, if his book's anything to go by.


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ljay889
#4Hal Prince and his Evita experience
Posted: 8/20/19 at 7:51pm

Kad said: "In his book, he doesn't talk about Patti at all beyond a passing mention that she played Eva."

Patti was also a vocal critic of Hal, calling him a “stager,” not a director. I don’t think they had a great relationship, but Patti did make a nice statement when he passed away. 

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GavestonPS
#5Hal Prince and his Evita experience
Posted: 8/20/19 at 8:19pm

My husband was Prince's associate casting director during the later years of EVITA.

I don't know what Mr. Prince himself thought, but the other members of the office did not speak well of LuPone. (Their dislike seemed personal; they may have loved her in the show.) So much so that my husband's view of LuPone is still colored today by the office gossip, even though he came in after LuPone had left the show.

Not that anyone asked, but I saw the Broadway version in previews and then caught a matinee in London a few weeks later. The show didn't make much sense to me in NY: between Patinkin and LuPone, there was so much method acting going on I couldn't figure out why they were singing. I preferred the show in London (Marti Webb was the matinee Eva); everything was just a bit bigger and more presentational, which made much more sense to me in a pop opera. Miss 
Webb didn't look anything like Eva Perón, but she sang and acted the hell out of the part.

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SmoothLover
#6Hal Prince and his Evita experience
Posted: 8/20/19 at 11:56pm

When they did Prince Of Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club, Hal was there more often than not, sitting in the last row of the orchestra.